PlatteForum in the News!
“It’s been an amazing opportunity. It’s helped me pave my way as an artist and it helps me a lot with my ambitions and what I want to do for my future … I’m really thankful!”
ArtLab Youth Intern Gregorio talking about Spoiled Echoes exhibition.
— Mile High Living
“ArtLab really exceeded my expectations. It’s great to connect with other artists who use different mediums than mine. it’s great that we can connect over our art even if we go to different schools.”
ArtLab Youth Intern Justine on Spoiled Echoes exhibition and ArtLab intern experience.
— Great Day Colorado, KWGN Channel 2
“PlatteForum plans to increase the number of youth it can serve through its ArtLab program. It will go from 40 to 50 interns thanks to a grant from the Vera and Joseph Dresner Foundation.”
Denver’s PlatteForum has more youth internships, will pay them more.
— Life on Cap Hill
“It was just so cool to see their faces and see everything come to life. I’m super proud of the kids and seeing young people create. It was a beautiful experience. I loved it.”
— Denverite
“PlatteForum calls itself an urban art and activism laboratory.”
Art residency program in Denver supports LGBTQ, BIPOC artists.
— Channel 9 News
“What I wanted to accomplish was telling my story through my art, because my hope is that in some way the viewers can connect with it because in my own experience, seeing other people's art — whether that's through music, poetry or visual arts — I have found my own healing.”
— Colorado Public Radio
“But more than anything, Nevaeh's most life-affirming takeaway from ArtLab and Listen to Our Cries has been the fact that permission is not needed to talk about what matters to her.”
Listen to Our Cries Projects the Politics of Youth.
— Denver Westword
“[interns] say collaborating as artists creating art relevant to them has been empowering.”
Student Artists in Denver’s Five Points Debut New Exhibit with Important Message.
— CBS News Colorado
“For me [the exhibit] is important because our voices have largely been ignored by adults in our society, and I think that this art project is a good way to bring that to attention.” - Patrick
Listen to Our Cries Gen Z artists confront issues like climate change and gun violence
— Rocky Mountain PBS
“PlatteForum has landed a second space in FLIGHT at TAXI. This light-filled gallery and studio space will provide PlatteForum’s resident artists more studio space and exhibition opportunities.”
PlatteForum Opens New Space, New Exhibit
— Your Hub, Denver Post
“PlatteForum announced its fall resident artists are Jennifer Maravillas-Bell and Jahna Rae Church.”
PlatteForum hosts two resident artists this fall.
— Your Hub, Denver Post
“We created a project that was inspired by the environmental elements of the campus and unifying, universal colors. The goal was to make sure the art moved through decades of a growing community and could last through time due to its simplicity.”
PlatteForum Unveils New Art Installation on Mosaic Community Campus
— Urban Land Conservancy
“Portraits of Change: Inspired by the Uprising, curated by the organization’s new executive director and former artist-in-residence, Michael Gadlin, showcases photographs taken by the husband and wife duo, artists and activists Jonathan (Afro-indigenous) and Letishia Kelley (Diné).”
— 303 Magazine
“A group exhibition reflecting the multiverse notion of hope and the resilient narratives of the immigrant identity. The exhibition will showcase visual, multi-media and performative works from a cohort of 30 emerging immigrant and established professional artists who participated in PlatteForum’s partnership with the New York Foundation for the Arts and their nationwide Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program.”
THREADS – Migration Connects Us All: A Platte Forum exhibition.
— Your Hub, Denver Post
“A competitive opportunity, the PlatteForum art residency takes only one artist at a time, sometimes sifting through more than 100 annual applicants to find its pick. But the tough competition is well worth the outcome — former PlatteForum residents have gone on to participate in Colorado’s popular street mural festivals and show their work in renowned Denver locales like RedLine Contemporary Art Center and the Denver Art Museum.”
A Round-Up of 12 Artist Residency Opportunities in the Denver Area.
— 303 Magazine
“Youth Talks with Community Leaders on the topic of Afrofuturism.”
Conversations with Gen Z feature.
— Life on Cap Hill
“PlatteForum offers an internship program called Art Lab, aimed to help kids from marginalized communities and Title 1 schools.”
On the importance of arts education during Covid-19.
— Denver 7 News
“Denver's gentrification and racial divides weigh heavily on dancer Kate Speer, the current artist-in-residence at the youth arts nonprofit, PlatteForum.
Borderlandia Explores Denver Gentrification Through Dance.
— Denver Westword
“Brooklyn artist and writer Sarah Gerard is the art organization's artist-in-residence. She worked with teen artists from the Mi Casa after-school program at North High School to create PlatteForum's current exhibition, "Dear Mayor Hancock, What Are You Going to Do?”
Young Artists Ask ‘Dear Mayor Hancock, What Are You Going To Do?’ About Homelessness.